Do you believe that our great nation is being destroyed?!?

Question

If so, how and why?

Neo pirate, let me guess because of liberals, right?

"We the people" what does that suppose to mean?!

Answer 1

Yes and its happening from within .
We have forgotten what made this nation great .
That we took care of ourselves and what we had left over we sold to the rest of the world and reinvested it in our own country .
Today everything is just the opposite and we are importing everything making nothing and expect the world to keep using our money .

Answer 2

I'm not quite that optimistic. I believe America is a culture in decline. Decades ago, before you were even born, American society was undermined from within. Ironically, the forces that did so were just trying to improve things, but some of them went too far.

For instance, in the first half of the 20th century, there was a lot of sexism and intollerance in America. These were bad things, and movements came into being to try to change thing.

Feminism succeeded in winning rights for women throughout the 20th century, starting with the vote. By the 70s, though, the movement reached a crticial point. Radicals wanted to legislatively erase all differences between men and women with a constitutional amendment. Had it passed, women would be subject to the draft, and had it's backers succeeded in getting Americans to internalize thier ideals, women and men would be exected to conform to the same norms of behavior. That didn't happen. Women and men are still free to be different from eachother, but women have the respect and the rights that all human beings deserve.

In contrast, the movement that fought intollerance through the middle part of the century and won, never stopped fighting. In the 70s, it adopted the philosophy of multi-culturalism, which took tollerance beyond the bounds of common sense. Not only has the ideal become enshrined in many laws, but it's largely been internalized. Americans are expected to believe that all /other/ cultures must be respected and have something of value to offer, while the American culture deserves no such respect. Indeed, the very idea of 'American Culture' is rarely broached, and even then, only with a sense of irony.

Christianity is another example. By the waning decades of the 20th century, Christianity was in full retreat in the face of growing secularism. Desperate chritians banded together to elect politicians who shared thier values (winning a surprise nomination for beltway outsider, Jimmy Carter). But, the movement went on, and became the overweeningly politicial 'religious right' that has caused so much trouble for the country in the 21st century.

There are other examples. Unions demanded a better and better life for the American worker until the American worker became too expensive to employ. The millitary demanded more and more technologically sophisticated equipment until the military became too expensive to maintain.

I think the common thread is activism. The 20th century saw the rise of activism to the point that almost anyone can demand of the government seemingly unlimitted resources for thier cause. But those resources aren't unlimitted, the country has overextended itself trying to fill every need and ascede to every demand, and the whole is collapsing as a result.

Answer 3

I believe that this once great nation has already been destroyed.

Once, we were a nation of individuals. The leaders were well read, literate, opinionated, and passionate. They had faults, and both good and bad ideas. There were always disagreements, dirty politics, subversives, and monarchists. But the majority of the founders felt it necessary to place the new government in its proper place. To ensure that it would not encroach upon the rights of its citizens, nor to attempt to provide anything other than was absolutely necessary to function as a uniting government. They realized that anything more would lead to tyranny.

Today we have much, MUCH more. Today we have a nanny state. a Federal government that even Hamilton may have been sick to see. Today we are not individuals in a self-governing union. The states are denied their 10th amendment right to make their own laws. Every issue becomes a national issue. Abortion, education, euthanasia, gay marriage, ad infinitum. Laws are made nationally that should be left up to the states. In fact, many "laws" regarding these hot-button issues are not actually laws. They are edicts passed down from a tyrannical court system that has usurped far more power than was relegated them by the Constitution. The Presidency can issue executive orders. The Legislators are interested only in obtaining and retaining power. All three branches have ceased to check or balance the others. This is tyranny.

We are a nation of sheep. we do what we are told, we pay confiscatory taxes that would have sparked revolution had they not been introduced piecemeal. We have no right to own property because if we dont pay the taxes on the land, the government will take it away. Indeed, the property we are allowed to occupy can be taken from us at the drop of a bureaucrat hat if they think that knocking down our 2 bed 1 bath home and putting up a strip mall will net more taxes for the "public good".

No longer do we govern ourselves. No longer does freedom ring. Big Brother is realized in the way we are forced to think. You must be "politically correct" or suffer the wrath of a tyrannical government.

One by one our constitutional rights have been stripped from us, while at the same time we are told that all is well. We are assured that we need a bigger government. More should be done. People need to be taken care of. It's for the children. It's for our safety. It's for our own good.

Yes. The damage is already done. The United States has been successfully destroyed. In it's place is the United Bureaucracy of Blissful Socialists.

And that's the trouble. Too many people like it this way.

Answer 4

Arrogance, avarice and hubris has set in....and, just as it destroyed the great Greek and Roman empires, it will just as certainly destroy America.
Once any society reaches a point where it believes itself to be superior and indulgent, it becomes slothful, greedy, amoral and selfish. Excess in what we consume and how we satisfy our gluttonous lack of morality and compassion is what will tear away at the very fabric of our national community.
Alexander Tyler alluded to it skillfully: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefit from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship." Tyler also noted that "the average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years."
We are on the brink of self-destruction. -RKO- 11/06/07

Answer 5

It is in the process of being destroyed-but I believe there is still hope left.

The people (and, so, the government) have all but completely abandoned the Constitution. With the executive branch "granting themselves" more and more dictatorial power-throwing off the Constitutional balance of powers-laws like the "Patriot" Act attempting to supercede our expectation and right for only REASONABLE & WARRENTED searchs and seizures, the war of sensorship being waged against the first amendment in the form of "free speech zones" and the FCC, gun rights disappearing more every second....there is hardly a Constitutional right that is left unmolested. I don't know why people are so set in their ways that they will accept this assult on their own rights.

I *DO* know that there is still hope, but only if people stand up and demand that America return to the Constitutional principals that founded this country-the principals of Liberty, which we would get from a severely restricted federal government, true freedom of speech without federal oversight via the FCC, a true and completely free market, a return to the rights of personal privacy and protection, and a return to personal accountability that comes from the complete demolishment of "social programs".

If Americans make a strong stand for it, the government will have to listen....and that's where the hope lies for this country. If we don't stand up, we will continue to allow ourselves to be driven down the road to a future of Orwellian nightmares and the greatness of our nation will be destroyed beyond redemption.

Answer 6

Yes it is and has been for a long time. It's being killed a slow death. I think it all started when the American Government decided to "take care of the World" and this in turn made the people of other countries despise us. This also started a down ward spiral of the rights and privileges that we as Americans have always HAD. Not any longer though. Fool yourself if you want, buy into the propaganda that the Government throws out, and wait for the time when all you have left is working for the betterment of the American Government. Not for yourself or for your family. Buy the time that people see what is happening it will be to late to complain about it. You will no longer have "free" speech....

Answer 7

Foreighn relationship destryoyed by doing unnescesary stuff and trust is being lost and ppl are turing away from us due to our policies that we know we should change.

Corupt ,greedy leader. Zionists running the country,ppl who tries to convert free america into christian state.

Leader wasting the countries resources for his own benifits.

Leader not giving a damm about his ppl and care for the existsence of some illegal ppl and give em $20 billion annualy for military aid.(hurricane katrina should tell).

And the ppl electing and suppporting the wrong ppl plays a big part too.

Answer 8

Just a few minor details

If we sell off all dollars and start using the Euro things will turn around.

Sure it's been a while since those European investors lost control of America 1776 But they can still get everything back.

Answer 9

In some ways yes, in others no.

The current domestic issues have been caused by the inept, incompetant and corrupt administration of the past 7 years.

The republican'ts had the Executive branch, both houses and have placed 2 supreme court justices on the bench so if there are any cons out there whinning and sniveling that things aren't going their way they have only their own party and themselves to blame.

The likelyhood of any of them owning up to and taking personal responsibility for anything is as unlikely to happen as Dubbya leaving without further disgracing the office he holds!

As for the ills of society being caused by the lack of "morals" or christian values - that is a huge pile of BS!
The fundies ARE the problem and are no different than any fundie nutjob group.

You on the christian right are no different than the Islamo-faciasts you try to villify, cut from the same cloth I would say!

The world would be a better place without the either of your intollerant and cruel religions!

Answer 10

I believe as in the past we are experiencing a temporary set back. Some how we have always pulled out of periods where we have had poorly run Administrations with presidents who were corrupt and or incompetent. While this one takes the cake in the quantity of each we are still strong enough as a people to recover. The way to begin is vote Democratic next year. The GOP is currently run by people who are giving the grand old party a bad reputation. Once they dump those idiots they might be worth considering again but until then we are all better off with Democrats.

Answer 11

Destroyed is a strong word. Degraded certainly. Our currency is sinking like the Titanic, there is a greater gulf between the haves and have nots, the government can now spy on you without oversight. The most disturbing degradation, however, is that we have sunk to an all time low regarding torturing of prisoners. This is both an ethical travesty and a practical problem.

How have we allowed this to happen?